Patrick Midtlyng gave a talk entitled “The effects of speech rate on initial plosives and click accompaniments in Zulu” at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The conference was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last Friday, April 10. Great job, Patrick!
This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July.
James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech in Portland on May 23. Six days later, James will be presenting “Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese” at the 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society in Saigon.
Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows:
March 16 (Location: Harper 140)
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1-1:30 |
Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda |
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1:30-2 |
Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign |
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2-2:30 |
Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean |
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Break |
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3-3:30 |
Pat Rich: French expletive negation |
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3:30-4 |
Luisandro Mendes De Souza: Comparatives in Brazilian Portuguese and the Verbal Domain |
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4-4:30 |
Pete Klecha: The Modality of English Futures |
March 17 (Location: Harper 130)
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9-9:30 |
Andy Dombrowski: Albanian-Slavic Phonological Contact |
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9:30-10 |
Juan Bueno Holle: Reference-tracking in Isthmus Zapotec |
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10-10:30 |
Alice Lemieux: Washo Bipartite Stems |
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Break |
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11-11:30 |
Max Bane: Grammatical Correlates of Variation in the English Dative Alternation |
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11:30-12 |
Yaron McNabb: Apparent pharyngealization in French loanwords in Moroccan Arabic |
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12-12:30 |
Susan Rizzo: Grandfather Effects and Derived Environment Effects in Harmonic Grammar |
We’re proud to announce our program for the upcoming CLS 45 Conference, April 16-18, 2009, is now available. The program can be found on our website .
On the site you can also find pre-registration information; you can now pre-register online (payment must be mailed or hand-delivered by March 31). Registration is free to currently enrolled U of C students if they volunteer at the conference.
We’re looking forward to a great conference, and hope you are too!
-CLS 45
James Kirby represented Chicago linguistics last week at the UCLA-UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies in sunny Los Angeles. James’s paper, “Spectral cues to voice quality in Vietnamese” (abstract included here) was presented during a phonetics session of the Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia.